A North Texas mother whose two toddlers died in a hot car last May has been sentenced to two 20-year prison terms to be served simultaneously.A Parker County jury in Weatherford sentenced 25-year-old Cynthia Marie Randolph to the maximum sentences Monday. Hours earlier, the same jury convicted her of two second-degree felony counts of recklessly causing injury to a child.Randolph’s charges were reduced. She had faced two first-degree felony counts of knowingly causing serious injury to a child. A conviction on those could have led to life sentences.According to the Star-Telegram, Randolph first told investigators 1-year-old Cavanaugh Ramirez and 2-year-old Juliet Ramirez had disappeared and then apparently locked themselves in her car. She later admitted she locked the children in the car for several hours to teach them a lesson because her daughter often got out of the car without permission.Testimony reveals the mother then went inside, smoked marijuana, watched "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and took a two to three-hour nap.When she woke up, she found her children unresponsive. Temperatures had soared to 96 degrees that day and the children died from heatstroke. Randolph said she broke the car window so it would look like an accident.

WEATHERFORD, Texas —

A North Texas mother whose two toddlers died in a hot car last May has been sentenced to two 20-year prison terms to be served simultaneously.

A Parker County jury in Weatherford sentenced 25-year-old Cynthia Marie Randolph to the maximum sentences Monday. Hours earlier, the same jury convicted her of two second-degree felony counts of recklessly causing injury to a child.

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Randolph’s charges were reduced. She had faced two first-degree felony counts of knowingly causing serious injury to a child. A conviction on those could have led to life sentences.

According to the Star-Telegram, Randolph first told investigators 1-year-old Cavanaugh Ramirez and 2-year-old Juliet Ramirez had disappeared and then apparently locked themselves in her car.

She later admitted she locked the children in the car for several hours to teach them a lesson because her daughter often got out of the car without permission.

Testimony reveals the mother then went inside, smoked marijuana, watched "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and took a two to three-hour nap.

When she woke up, she found her children unresponsive. Temperatures had soared to 96 degrees that day and the children died from heatstroke.

Randolph said she broke the car window so it would look like an accident.